The technical difficulties that plagued Tony Dokoupil’s debut as CBS Evening News anchor have been blamed on the network’s new right-wing boss rewriting the program’s script just moments before it went live.
The MAGA-coded host’s hopes of making a strong first impression on CBS News’ flagship evening broadcast on Jan. 5 were quickly dashed when he struggled to read from the teleprompter and had no idea which segment he was meant to be presenting.
“First day, big problems here,” an embarrassed Dokoupil told viewers as he began discussing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz while an image of Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly appeared on screen. “Are we going to Kelly here or are we going to go to Jonah Kaplan?” Dokoupil asked the control room, leaving several seconds of excruciating dead air. “We’re doing Mark Kelly,” he eventually continued.
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